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govermentality and self precarization: on the normalisation of cultural producers. Isabell Lorey, In to the reader, 2013

committing to one thing, one job definition, ignores many other aspects

belief that one has chosen

ideas of autonomy and freedom are constitutively connected with hegemonic modes of subjectivation in western capitalist societies.

how self chosen precarization contributed to producing the conditions for being able to become an active part of neo liberal political and economic relations.

foucault, mental tekniques

BIOPOLITICAL GOVERMENTALITY: the structural entanglement of the government of a state and the techniques of self government in western societies

sovereign - the Prince of Machiavelli 16th cent. as a prototype, were not concerned with ruling the people for the shake of their welfare, but they were primarely interested in dominating them for the welfare of the sovereign. 18th century= liberalism and the bourgeois became hegemonic, and the population gets in the focus of power and governing was focused on the life of people and how to make it better. the power of the state now relates not to territories but to the "happiness' of the population. this leads to a population of subjects that were bound to economic paradigms in their thought and behavior. (all the life of people involved to the complex economic processes acc. to foucault)

Foucault- "liberalism was the economic and liberal framework of biopolitics, and , equally, an indispensable element in the development of capitalism"

in a bourgeois liberal context a government policy oriented on the means, until today, establishing and producing normality and then securing it. For that, a great data is necessary. Statistis are produced, things are calculated.

foucault, history of sexuality- "western man was gradually learning what it meant to be a living species in a living world, to have a body, conditions of existence, ...and a space where they could be distributed in an optimal manner" so here foucault focuses on - one must learn how to have a body, that is existing in specific existential conditions, and must learn to develop a relationship with himself that is "creative and productive"

possessive individualism

these conditions, applicable in the beginning only to the bourgeois, affect in the end of 19th cent the entire population. at issue here the structural conditions of normalising societies. the entire population must become biopolitical subjects

a body that one must sell as a labor power

foucault- art of governing- self discipline and control, AN ORDER THAT IS NOT FORCED BY PEOPLE , BODIES OR THINGS BUT IN WHICH THEY SIMULTANEOUSLY ARE AN ACTIVE PART.

one relation to one's body as a means of PRODUCTION.

the modern person is constituted through possessive individualistic self-relations

property and security. (COLLECTIONS HERE)

NORMALISED FREE SUBJECTS:

in biopolitical societies the constitution of the normal is always also woven in with the hegemonic. normal-bourgeois heterosexual etc

normality is not external, as we guarantee and reproduce it

the normalised subject is historical construct in an assemble of knowledge forms, institutions and technologies additionally, the normal is naturalised with the effect of actuality, authenticity,we imagine that the effect of our power relations is the essence of ourself, our truth, the core, the origin of our beeings. The normalising self-governing is based on an imagined coherence, uniformity and wholeness that can be traced back in the construction of the white male etc. Coherence as a prerequisity of modern sovereignity.

neoliberal and concept of own responsibility

subjectivated in this way the subject reproduces endlessly the conditions for govermentality